LA BOTANIQUE EN PROVENCE. 89 
man. e dchaplusie merit of the volume under review is 
Ms fa of light thrown on this hitherto unknown personage and 
is life 
n Morren’ s Mathias de L’Obel, sa vie et son ceuvre was 
Sk, and are not dependent entirely on heh judgment, 
- Pierre 
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arrondissement SS Aix, in Proven the year of his birth is 
unknown, but he was, as we shall se, several years older than 
Lobel, who was bork in 15388. He was the youngest of three 
brothers—André, who became ‘+ Gonielller au Parlement d’Aix” ; 
Pierre, who was intended for a soldier. When twenty years old, 
he was taken by his brother Jean to Paris to study medicine, and 
eet by him during his residence in the capital. After leaving 
s, Pierre visited the northern provinces of France, Flanders, 
Gavatand the Tyrol, Switherland; Italy, Piedmont, Spain, and 
Portugal, citing ih em as given by M. Legré. He was at Antwerp 
in 1558, Italy in 1560-64; in 1562 a second time at Padua, in 1563 
making an excursion to Verona; in 1564 at Ziirich with Conrad 
Gesner, thence he travelled to Venice; the next year, 1565, he met 
Lobel at Montpellier, having signed the register there in ‘April, a 
few weeks earlier than Lobel. 
Their stay at the southern University was but short, contrary 
to the received belief—a year and a half at the outside. We find 
them botanizing with the students in June, 1566; their teacher, 
ae died on 80th July of the same year, and in tm they 
e both at La Rochelle on their way to England. Why was their 
stay in Montpellier so short? It is suggested that the death of 
of the storm which broke out in 1567 was already marked by them, 
that, being probably both of them Protestants, they turned to the 
realm of England, where, under Elizabeth’s sway, profound peace 
reigned. Be that as it may, they travelled by way of Agen, Bordeaux, 
Saintes, and Normandy, reaching our shores before the end of the year. 
How the next three o — years were passed we have only 
slight indications. They seem to have been well received, and, as 
shown in their Adversaria, senvellal about the country; by the end 
of 1570 their volume was printed, the preface being dated 24th 
December, and the printer’s note 1st January, se 
What was the relative share borne by these two friends in the 
work thus produced? M. Legré inhositatinibly ee Pena did the 
most, and on the following grounds :— 
